• What is MTV?
  

MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981.^[1] The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs.^[2]

• Influence of MTV on the youths today?

1. MEDIA INFLUENCE
2. BODY IMAGE

• Young girls are being deluged by media images of skinny models:

  Girls are becoming weight conscious as young as 8 years old
  80% of 9 year olds are on diets
  Eating disorders have grown 400% since 1970

• In a recent survey by Teen People magazine, 27% of the girls felt that the media pressures them to have a perfect body.
• A 1996 poll conducted by Saatchi and Saatchi found that ads made women fear being unattractive or old.
• By the time a young person is 17 years old, they have received over 250,000 commercial messages through the media.
• 69% of girls in one study said that magazine models influence their idea of a perfect body shape.
• Many males are becoming insecure about their physical appearance as advertising and other media images raise the standard and idealize well-built men.
• Researchers are seeing an alarming increase in obsessive weight training and the use of anabolic steroids & dietary supplements that promise bigger muscles and more stamina for lifting.
• Studies are finding that boys, like girls, may turn to smoking to lose weight

• why do you like or dislike MTV?

I like MTV's because their graphics are really nice and the dance steps are really unique.

• how does MTV change your life?

Allows me to learn different dance steps based on their choreographed dance moves.